The analogy of ripping to a Xerox copy is flawed. There is loss in copying a non-digital source, but there can be exact copying of a digital source.
If the digital computer file->DAC had been invented first, and then someone designed a way to copy the bits to a ten cent piece of plastic, spin it at high speed and bounce a laser beam off it, we'd see it as a Rube Goldbergian sow's ear, and inherently problematic.
If the digital computer file->DAC had been invented first, and then someone designed a way to copy the bits to a ten cent piece of plastic, spin it at high speed and bounce a laser beam off it, we'd see it as a Rube Goldbergian sow's ear, and inherently problematic.